The Coastal Wine Trail’s Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Festival on will be held Saturday, June 21 in three sessions: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, 2:30 to 5 p.m., and 6 to 8:30 p.m. It will...

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The Coastal Wine Trail’s Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Festival on will be held Saturday, June 21 in three sessions: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, 2:30 to 5 p.m., and 6 to 8:30 p.m. It will be held at the Westport Fairgrounds, 200 Pine Hill Road, Westport. Tickets can be bought through the Coastal Wine Trail website, www.coastalwinetrail.com/wine-cheese-chocolate-festival. Tickets are $25 in advance and $40 at the door.

With vineyards stretching across the farmland and coastal areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, Travessia is making its mark in a vastly different setting: downtown New Bedford.

And now, three years after opening on Purchase Street in New Bedford’s revitalized downtown amid cafes, restaurants, college campuses and boutiques, the urban winery is thriving. “In 2008 when I started making wine, I did 600 cases and now I’m doing 1,100 cases,” said Travessia Urban Winery owner Marco Montez.

By mid-winter, many of his wines are sold out for the year, he added. As the wines became more popular, Montez expanded the wine-making operation in the original space in the 100-year-old building at 760 Purchase Street and he took over an adjacent space to make a new wine-tasting room. Montez also holds events such as guest speakers and performers in the tasting room, as well as offering one wall for a featured artist unveiled during each month’s AHA night. He also rents it out for engagement parties and other gatherings.

Montez, who grew up in Portugal in a wine-making family, purchases the grapes he uses to make the white wines for the Travessia label from area vineyards. The 2013 selection includes chardonnay, a dry white wine with a blend of grapes aged in French oak barrels and unoaked barrels; riesling, a medium dry wine; a vidal blanc that will be released at the end of June; and a pinot noir rose, made pink by allowing some contact with grape skins during fermentation.

He also makes a couple of reds under different labels from grapes from the West Coast including Jester, with a blend of zinfandel, cabernet sauvignon, syrah, and petit sirah grapes; and Trapeze and Bandito, both of which are not available right now.

Those who haven’t tried Travessia Urban Winery’s wines will have the opportunity to do so this Saturday at the Coastal Wine Trail’s Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Festival. In addition to Travessia, the Coastal Wine Trails members that will be present at the event include Coastal Vineyards, Greenvale Vineyards, Langworthy Farm, Newport Vineyards, Running Brook Vineyards, Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyard, Truro Vineyards and South Hollow Spirits, Westport Rivers Vineyard & Winery, and Stonington Vineyards, of Connecticut.

The wines are also available now in Fall River at Portugalia Imports, said Montez.

The event on Saturday, June 21, features three sessions: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, 2:30 to 5 p.m., and 6 to 8:30 p.m. It will be held at the Westport Fairgrounds, 200 Pine Hill Road, Westport. Tickets can be bought through the Coastal Wine Trail website, www.coastalwinetrail.com/wine-cheese-chocolate-festival. Tickets are $25 in advance and $40 at the door.